The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-02
SPRINKLE the streets.
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

/ ZoLAS ordinary income exceeds 500, 600 year.
/ Gov. AMEs of Massachusetts,, lives in mag
/ nifcent style. It costs him fully $40 600 year
to keep up his Boston establishment
Louis KossUTH, at eighty five, has given up
/ all active pursuits but is in the enjoyment of
/ fair health, aud lives at Turin with his son,
| Major Kossu:b. who is one of the railroad mag
| mates of Italy.
| DR.. HERBERT B. ADAMS. of Johns Hopkins
/ University. suggests that civil academy be es-
tablshed at Washington for the training of
young men in public affairs-to be to the public
| service what the West Point Academy is to the
| army the Annapolis Academy is to the navy.
IN Ohio, in 1879, there were 5000 unmarked
soldiers graves. Very many of these are still
unmarked and are gradually becoming lost.
| There is movement have the State take
charge of them, that they appropriately
marked and have them decorated fttingly every
/ Memorial day.
CITIZEN George Francis Train says that when
he stopped eating meat, thirteen years ago, and
| began living on fruit and grain. he weighed 30
| pounds. He now weighs $50, and as he is six
| feet in height, he thinks he has the pro-
| portion: He has not been i'll an hour since he
began fasting
THE effect of prohibition in Iowa is that signs
appear numerous suspicious-looking shanties
| in the back country reading "Druck Sto,"
''Drog StOaer," "Drugg Slower" etc. The in
| jury done the English language alone by prohi-
biton will be felt by the people of that State for
at least fifty years.
AN Athenian newspaper relates that mer-
chant named Kostas Stages, 128 years of age.
recently undertook a two-days' journey on horse
back in order to see his old home once more He
owes his health to the pure water and air for
which his present home. Klissiora, which lies in
a high mountainous region. IS famous.
THE story has recently been imported of
/ English gravestone-maker who ordered to
| cut on stone the words: "a virtuous woman
| is a crown to her husband" The stone how
being a we'd on IL. vii
| tuous woman is 5s. to her husband" In Eng
| land five-s shilling piece is called crown.
! THE first of the Shermans to come to this
country left England in 1890. His name was
| John. He was for years preacher in Con-
| necticut. He afterwards became a professor of
| mathematics at Harvard and published several
| almanacs From this brany descended
| Senator Sherman and General William T. Sher-
| man.
| CAPTAIN CARLILE recently started a great
controversy in England by publishing let
| ters headed The Priest in the Family" bitterly
| complaining that his wife had been converted to
| Roman Catholicism. The announcement is now
made that he has since followed her example,
and been received into the communion of that
| church.
WHAT may be hoped is death blow to piano
drumming is given by NJ. Gounod in this pungent
| letter to Camille See
Dear Sir: You ask my opinion as to the share of
piano study which should be allowed in the education
of young girls. reply seems to be most easy-the
least time possible for those studying profession
ally This is my sentiment in plain words: Je vous
lie livre. Yours, CHARLES GoUNoD.
| Thomas NJ. COLEMAN, who was for twenty five
years city editor of the Philadelphia Ledger, re-
firing few years ago pension of $50 week
from Mr. Childs, and who is seventy-fve
years old, was married on Tuesday to young
woman of twenty, who acting his nurse.
He has been SICK good deal of late, and was
married while lying in bed.
Sig. ADoLFo ENRICo APoLLoNJ, teacher of
| sculpture in the New England Conservatory of
Music, whose home is in Woonsockes, r. L. has
just been made knight of the Order of the
Crown of Italy by King Humbert in recognition
of his art works at home Sig. Apolonj Is per
haps the youngest man upon whom this high
honor has been conferred.
EXCHANGE ''What shall we name baby
sister," asked mother of her little four-year-
old daughter. Gail her Early, mamma; that's
a pretty narner EARLY? That is not little
girls name" 'Oh, yes it is. Don't you remem-
Der you read to me about little girl who
to be the May Queen. and who wanted her
mother to call her Early!"
BosToN Post: 1 heard story of country
man in town the other day asking where he
could find the Bank of the Redeemer As
neither his speech his manner indicated that
he was using the sym boism of the Salvation
Army. or had been victimized by Mrs. Howe, it
fair to suppose that the object of his search
was the National Bank of Redemp ton.
THE late Alexander Mitchell once asked his
friend Mr. Merrill to go into a certain specula-
ton with him. The latter declined. A few
weeks later Mr.. Mitchell handed him a check
for $50, 600. What's this forF inquired Mr..
Merrill. -Oh," the reply, that's your
snare of profits in the deal I asked you to go
into You thought you weren't in, but you
were"
IN the British Museum, historical works are
bound in red, theological in blue, poetical in
yellow, and books natural history in green
oF
with mark by which it can be distinguished as
their property. and of different colors thus, red
indicates that book was purchased. blue that it
came by copyright, and yellow that it pre-
scented.
DR.. ALBERT KELLOGG, who died short time
ago at Alameda CAL, was the first person to
describe accurately to the world the 'big trees
which he did in General Fremonts report to
Congress of his explorations. He was
ciate of Audubon in Texas at the time of its
nexation to the United States and he the
botanist of the first government expedition to
Alaska after the purchase of that territory.
THERE seems to be no chance that the decision
of Secretary Whitney not to repair the historic
old frigate Hartford in which Admiral Farragut
fought at New Orleans, Port Hudson and Mo-
bile, will be reversed, despite the efforts of
California committee. Secretary Whitney says
that while he would like to see her preserved cit
is matter OF business not of sentiment have
authority in the case and only Congress
act"
A RECENT confagration in a remote Chinese
village destroyed the ancestral home of the fam
lily of Confucius, with all its valuable contents.
1t was really of the most remarkable and
tistic museums in the world, containing. it
did, nearly every extant memorial of the great
teacher In that building, erected about 600 B.
c., generation after generation, the male heirs
of the Chinese philosopher have dwet in
broken line for 9, 500 years.
ONE of the most interesting and probably the
costiest gift received by Miss Croker, now
Mrs. Alexander, was a set of jewelry, consisting
of necklace bracelet, ring and earrings of
of diamonds. rubies. sapphires and tourmalnes
The gems a present from Mrs. Leland
Stanford, who had spent years in collect
ing them. She had gathered them for the wife
her son should choose. After his death she re-
served them for Miss Croker.